”(1) He then says “we refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great faults of opportunity of this nation. “It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. compares the US government’s allowance of segregation to a bank that won’t pay up. ”(60)In the speech Martin Luther King Jr. He is using character appeals to “establish credibility by connecting your own beliefs to core principles that are well established and widely respected.
”(1) As Americans we value upholding our laws, and they should be respected and not neglected. ”(1) He goes on to say “But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. “Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. starts off in his speech with an ethos appeal to his audience by speaking about the promises America has made to the black community in the Emancipation Proclamation. This allowed him to have many avenues with which to start his argument without the people having to check his credentials on the subjects he would be speaking about.Dr. had already established credibility and shared values and did “not have to make an open claim to authority,” (59) as our text indicated. In arguments, “most writers try to establish an ethos that suggests authority and credibility. as a well known civil rights leader, a well educated African American doctor, preacher, and an articulate speaker. was able to use his passion and character to help open American’s minds, and motivate them to make a nonviolent change towards equality.
Through appeals to pathos, “a strategy in which a writer tries to generate specific emotions in an audience, to dispose it to accept a claim ” (1042) and appeals to ethos, which is “the self image a writer creates to define a relationship,” (1042) Dr.